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Though reliably sharp-witted, Macdonald makes his reputation as a coarse anti-intellectual. In this set, when you expect his next word will be "intelligence" or "information," Macdonald goes instead for the untutored-sounding "smartness." He insists that at gatherings he steers toward anyone he can find to "talk about Jughead comics for a couple hours" and indeed Macdonald claims before winding up the show, "Nothing I've said really is of substance."
However, this carefully projected obtuseness hides another Macdonald who is indeed an avid reader, especially of classic literature. His parents were teachers, and Macdonald frequently cites Tolstoy as his favorite author. Last year he casually dropped his abridged rendition of Nikolai Gogol's "The Overcoat" into a text message exchange with an interviewer . Writing in The Week , Lili Loofbourow described Macdonald's own book Based on a True Story as a story "pretending hard" not to be ambitious but called it an "experiment in hyperliterary comedy" filled with "difficult beauty" and "waves of lyricism," comparing the faux-memoir to both Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory and Pale Fire .
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Music mogul Simon Cowell has accused Grammy Awards bosses of snobbery for failing to nominate teenage pop star Justin Bieber for the upcoming prize-giving.
The Baby hitmaker, who previously scored two nods at the 2011 ceremony, was omitted from the 2013 nominations list when it was announced on Wednesday night (05Dec12), with fun., Frank Ocean and The Black Keys leading the pack.
Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun, was furious when it became clear the singer had not been recognized and blasted organisers in a series of angry messages on Twitter.com, raging: "Grammy board u (sic) blew it on this one. The hardest thing to do is transition, keep the train moving. The kid delivered. Huge successful album, sold out tour, and won people over... this time he deserved to be recognized."
Music mogul Cowell has now waded into the debate and called Grammy bosses out for shunning Bieber.
He tells TMZ.com, "You know what? He deserved one (a nomination), I think. But they can get a bit snobby sometimes."
However, Cowell is convinced Bieber won't be too worried about the snub, adding, "He won't be crying too much. He's doing fine."
The Grammy Awards will be handed out in Los Angeles on 10 February (13).

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Sneak Peak of the 2013 Mead - View the Festival Trailer!
The 2013 Margaret Mead Film Festival will screen 39 outstanding films and host special events and performances Thursday, October 17 through Sunday, October 20, 2013.
Fourteen Documentary Directors are in Contention For the 2013 Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award
The award recognizes documentary filmmakers who embody the spirit, energy, and innovation demonstrated by anthropologist Margaret Mead.
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The attic space ended up not being tall enough for a standing doll, but it was tall enough to sit a doll down to play this piano my daughter made last year. She came home from playing at a friend's house with this cute little accessory. She made it out of cardboard and toilet paper rolls. The dolls have had several recitals using this clever little instrument. She even made a doll-sized music book to go with it.
I think I had the most fun designing the bathroom area. Inspired by my daughter's cardboard piano, I spotted a cardboard box in my closet that was just the right size for a vanity. I cut a circle on one side of the box to fit a small toy bowl we had lying around. The faucet is a leftover piece of hardware from a towel bar that we no longer needed. We were able to attach it right into the back of the bookcase using that screw that came with it. The knobs are small drawer pulls that I had pulled off an old dresser and no longer needed. I covered the box with scrapbook paper using mod podge, and put another coat of the glue on top to seal it all together. I attached the vanity to the floor with some hot glue. I was also able to find a small mirror at Hobby Lobby and attached it to the wall with hot glue. I framed it in with a contrasting color of scrapbook paper to make it stand out. For the bathroom floor, I bought 3 squares of self-adhesive vinyl tile for less than $1 a piece and cut it to fit. I added a little piece of coving with leftover scraps to hide some of the imperfections I made while gluing the paper on the walls.
Before I could attach paper to the walls, I had to rough up all the places where I was going to apply it. This took some extra gritty sandpaper and a lot of muscle to get that shiny laminate dulled down enough to get the paper and flooring to stick to it. For wallpaper, I used 12 x 12 sheets of scrapbook paper in coordinating prints. I used a layer of mod podge to adhere all the paper. Then I sealed it all with another layer of the glue.


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PARIS (Reuters) - France's foreign minister said on Monday Syria risks falling into the hands of Islamist militant groups if supporters of the Syrian opposition do not do more to help it in a 22-month-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.
Addressing the opening of a conference in Paris with senior members of the Syrian National Coalition, Laurent Fabius said the meeting must focus on making the opposition politically and militarily cohesive to encourage international assistance.
"Facing the collapse of a state and society, it is Islamist groups that risk gaining ground if we do not act as we should," he said. "We cannot let a revolution that started as a peaceful and democratic protest degenerate into a conflict of militias."
Western concern over the growing strength of jihadist militants fighting autonomously in the disorganized ranks of anti-Assad rebel forces is rising. This has hindered international aid to the moderate Syrian National Coalition opposition and may push it more into the arms of conservative Muslim backers, diplomatic sources say.
The meeting, which brought together Western and Arab nations and the three vice-presidents of the coalition, tackled the lack of cohesion that has led to broken promises of aid.
Coalition vice-president Riad Seif said "time is not on our side" and that the opposition no longer wanted pledges of support that would not be followed through on.
"We need an interim or transitional government to provide assistance to millions of Syrians in liberated zones and to help bring the collapse of the (Assad) regime," he said.
The insurgents now control parts of the north and east of Syria, and have made inroads in major cities. But the air power and far superior weaponry of Assad, whose family has been in power for 43 years, have limited rebel advances.
Fabius sidestepped the question of arming the rebels, underlining the Western wariness about spreading weapons to Islamists across the volatile region, where long-standing rulers in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya have been toppled in popular uprisings over the past two years.
France said last week there was no sign Assad was about to be overthrown, reversing previous statements that he could not hold out long, while Jordan's King Abdullah said the authoritarian Syrian leader would consolidate his grip for now.
The European Union is set to review its arms embargo on Syria at the end of February.
Since its formation in November, the coalition has failed to gain traction on the ground in Syria and its credibility has been undermined by its inability to secure arms and cash.
"From the beginning we said we should be based in Syria, but so far we haven't received any money to run a government," Seif said.
He said the coalition lacked the financial or military means to set up within Syria and support civilians on the ground. "We are looking with our friends at how we can protect the liberated zones with defensive weapons and we are discussing how to get billions of dollars to create a budget," he said.
"But if we don't have this budget there is no point having a government. It makes no sense."
George Sabra, another coalition vice-president, said the coalition needed at least $500 million to launch a government.
A French diplomatic source present at the meeting said the coalition had received concrete promises from several countries that should keep it running for several months. He declined to say how much or which countries.
He acknowledged, however, that the meeting would not provide a magic solution.
"The risk (of doing nothing) is the loss of credibility for the coalition within the country and that is what we are trying to avoid," the source said. "If we don't have an alternative for the people, they will look where there is a bigger response."
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"We also need weapons. We needed them from the first minute," Sabra said. "At the last meeting of Friends of Syria, they recognized our rights to defend ourselves. (But) what does that mean if we cannot provide help to victims?"
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Our first impression of the Huawei Ascend Mate at its unveiling two days ago was that it was a great big beast of a phone. When we finally got our hands on it yesterday, we were in no way shocked to find that there's no magic that makes a 6.1-inch phone anything less than enormous.
The general styling is vaguely reminiscent of Samsung's Galaxy Note, although to be fair, that is largely attributable to the fact that the Note II is the only real frame of reference for a phone this large. The device is pleasant enough to hold, but the sheer size of the phone renders it unusable as a typical phone and pushes you into two-handed operation. No doubt, that will be a deal killer for some. As a Note II owner, this is exactly what concerns me with the idea of the Note III ratcheting things up to 6.3-inches.
As you'll see in the video, the phone's quad-core 1.4 GHz processor keeps Jelly Bean and their Emotion UI overlay running smoothly. If we have any MIUI fans out there, the Emotion overlay has that kind of feel to it with no app drawer and the ability to completely tweak the interface with different themes.
While the 720p resolution is perhaps a bit of a disappointment, on a screen this size it shouldn't be a concern for anyone that hasn't spent considerable time with the Droid DNA.
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A 20-year-old Baton Rouge man was indicted Thursday in the Aug. 17 killing of a 53-year-old man who died of "assault-induced stress" after being robbed on North Sherwood Forest Boulevard.
An East Baton Rouge Parish grand jury charged Hank Cage, 1864 Pamela Drive, with second-degree murder in the death of Terrance Booker.
A second-degree murder conviction would carry an automatic sentence of life in prison.
First Assistant District Attorney Prem Burns said Thursday the official cause of death was acute exacerbation of asthma and coronary arterial thrombosis due to assault-induced stress, and coronary arterial plaque rupture due to the assault.
"The ultimate cause of death in this case was the robbery and beating of Booker, and death would not have occurred but for the attack," Burns said.
The grand jury also indicted Brian Wright, 26, 1718 Boulevard De Province, on a charge of accessory after the fact to purse snatching, alleging he "harbored, concealed and aided" Cage "to escape from arrest, trial, conviction or punishment."
The grand jury further charged Wright with a felony charge of simple criminal damage to property. He is accused of flooding the Violent Crime Unit's entire holding cell at State Police headquarters by damaging a toilet, Baton Rouge police have said.
Booker was robbed near the 1700 block of North Sherwood Forest Boulevard about 1 p.m. on Aug. 17, police said. He later died at a local hospital.
Wright was captured after crashing his vehicle into a fence a few blocks from the crime scene, police stated.
Cage's and Wright's cases have been assigned to state District Judge Tony Marabella.


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In America, we lavish attention on our most talented fellow citizens—star athletes, film and television celebrities, brilliant scholars and scientists, and sometimes even college presidents—but we also insist that our celebrities not act like self-styled royalty. When members of America's elite are aloof and ignore the public's welfare—as many titans of Wall Street did, first ruining the economy, then paying themselves bonuses—Americans insist on retribution.
As branding initiatives in higher education have emerged and evolved over the past two decades, the media-outreach segments of the plans often continue to miss the mark. The reason? The campus professionals who are responsible for strategic communication are often relegated to a back-seat role in the process, or are left in the dark until the branding campaign is ready to be rolled out.
When I applied to colleges 40 years ago, I wrote letters to six schools and received a view book from each with a friendly cover letter, an invitation to visit the campus, an application, and a pointer to an alum or two who would be glad to sit down with me and discuss my future.
A DEFINITION OF STRATEGY that centers around the idea of "more"—we will serve more students, offer more programs, and be in more places—is highly likely to fail. Dollars are finite, so doing more will actually decrease quality because tight resources are spread even more thinly.
THREE QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN MAKING the rounds at the marketing conferences this year, as more and more schools are trying to get a better handle on their marketing expenditures:
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The Kentucky Derby is known as much for hats and high fashion as it is for fast horses. This year, rains are swamping Churchill Downs, but fans on the infield are still holding their heads — and their hats — high.
Bigger and bolder is the rule for hats that often dwarf their owners.
April Pauley of Columbus, Ohio, paraded around in the mud wearing a hat featuring flowers, a papier-mache jockey head and goggles and ribbons. "It's just my own little creation," Pauley said before taking a swig of her beer.
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"The 2012 host farms are geographically diverse and are located in the Upper Peninsula, mid-Michigan, the Thumb and in the southeast and southwest corners of the state. They are also commodity diverse and will showcase dairy, apple, field crop and potato production," Dunckel said.
Source: Michigan State University, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Made possible through the support of organizations and businesses at both the state and local level, Breakfast on the Farm gives consumers and farm neighbors a first-hand look at modern food production and the farm families who work hard to produce a safe, wholesome food supply.
Each farm interested in hosting Breakfast on the Farm this year was required to submit a detailed application by early December to sort out logistics and determine potential success in consumers' eyes.
Twelve farms submitted applications this year, some as early as July, but only 8 were given the honor of hosting Breakfast on the Farm events and inviting thousands of visitors to come learn about their farms.
"The applications were thoroughly reviewed by the statewide Breakfast on the Farm advisory council," said Nancy Thelen, Michigan State University (MSU) Extension agriculture literacy educator.
MSU Extension offers farmers considering hosting Breakfast on the Farm a checklist to determine if they have adequate facilities and if they want to go on to apply to host.
"All applications were excellent," said Mary Dunckel, MSU Extension agriculture literacy educator. "Each farm chosen has something unique that sets it apart from the rest. We hope that those not selected will consider applying again in the future."
The application included everything from level of visitor interest and awards received to number of generations owned and accommodations for large crowds of people.
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ATLANTA (AP) The Atlanta Braves never seem to lose when Kris Medlen is their starting pitcher.
They sure hope to extend his amazing streak for at least one more game.
The Braves have won 23 consecutive games started by Medlen - a modern big league record. On Friday, he'll go in the inaugural wild-card playoff against the defending World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals. The winner advances to face NL East champion Washington in the divisional round. The loser is done for the season.
Medlen (10-1, 1.57 ERA) says he doesn't think much about the streak that began in 2010, except when reminded of it by the media.
The Cardinals will counter with 16-game winner Kyle Lohse. If not for the new postseason format, St. Louis would have been watching from home.


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Here are some short biographies of chessplayers who have made above-average contributions to chess at some level, whether in Devon or further afield.
The 1st editions of some of these articles got their first airing on the chessdevon website, and the author is grateful to its webmaster for that opportunity. These early ones have now all been reviewed and updated where new information has come to light before posting here.
Copyright remains with the author who will be pleased to receive further information for inclusion, or make corrections where necessary. Family history researchers should contact the author in the first instance with a view to a possible useful exchange of information.


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August 21, 2013 08:41 ET
STONY BROOK, NY--(Marketwired - Aug 21, 2013) - Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (OTCBB: APDN), (Twitter: @APDN) (the "Company"), a provider of DNA-based anti-counterfeiting technology and product authentication solutions, announced today that Ms. Karol Kain Gray will join the company as Chief Financial Officer, reporting to Dr. James A. Hayward, CEO and President. Beginning in October, she will be responsible for strategic and tactical matters as they relate to budget management, forecasting needs, and establishing and maintaining contacts with stockholders, financial institutions, Wall Street and the investor community.
Said Dr. Hayward: "We are thrilled to bring her incredible experience and range of skills to the company. As a prior member of our Board of Directors, Karol is already deeply aware of our business and the commercial opportunities. Her management skill are among the best I have ever known."
Ms. Gray comes to the company from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she was Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration overseeing financial planning and budgeting; treasury and risk management; facilities planning, construction and operations; purchases and stores; public safety, environmental health and safety; and auxiliary enterprises. The University's financial budget for fiscal year 2012-2013 is $3.4 billion.
Ms. Gray served as the Executive Vice President/Treasurer of the Chapel Hill Foundation Real Estate Holdings, Inc., Treasurer of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Investment Fund, Inc. (CHIF), Treasurer of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Foundation, Inc., and Secretary/Treasurer of UNC Management Company. Ms. Gray also sits on the Board of Directors of Chapel Hill/Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, MBA @UBC LLC, UNC Press Board of Governors, and UNC Health Care System.
Ms. Gray has 35 years of financial, organizational and management experience. Her previous position was at the University at Stony Brook, where she worked her way up steadily as a financial analyst, chief accountant, controller, Vice President for Finance and Administration and the Chief Financial Officer. As Chief Financial Officer for the Stony Brook Foundation, she provided financial direction and support for the budget, investment and realty committees and was responsible for the management of an endowment of approximately $120 million with net assets of $200 million.
Ms. Gray is a graduate of Hofstra University with a bachelor's degree in business administration.
In 2011 Ms. Gray was named one of Long Island's Top 50 Most Influential Women in Business. Since August 2011, Ms. Gray has been a Director, Chairman of the Audit Committee and Member of the Compensation Committee, for APDN.
Ms. Gray succeeds Kurt Jensen who resigned effective today to pursue other interests. The company thanks Kurt for his significant contributions to APDN over the past seven years and wishes him well in his future endeavors. In addition to serving as President and CEO, Dr. Hayward will serve as interim CFO until October 7, 2013, when Ms. Gray's appointment as CFO becomes effective.
About Applied DNA Sciences
APDN is a provider of botanical-DNA based security and authentication solutions that can help protect products, brands and intellectual property of companies, governments and consumers from theft, counterfeiting, fraud and diversion. SigNature® DNA and smartDNA, our principal anti-counterfeiting and product authentication solutions that essentially cannot be copied, provide a forensic chain of evidence and can be used to prosecute perpetrators.
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What a tournament.
Marcelo's own goal in his home country's opener provided a foreboding start to World Cup 2014. But the quadrennial soccer showcase went on to produce thrill after thrill, culminating in 22-year-old Mario Goetze's extra-time winner Sunday that lifted Germany past Argentina 1-0.
American fans watched in all-time high numbers, viewers around the world tweeted at historic levels, and the world's best footballers broke some records, too.
A record-tying 171 total goals were scored over 64 matches. Eight of those contests went to extra time, which also tied the record. An all-time high 13 percent of shots found the back of the net. And Germany's Miroslav Klose became the highest scorer in World Cup history with 16 goals.
Meanwhile, the United States scored the fifth-fastest goal in World Cup history, surrendered the latest normal-time strike in 20 years and stopped the most shots since FIFA started recording saves in 1966.
Not ready to let World Cup fever subside just yet, we picked the tournament's most impressive players for our World Cup Best 11. The attacking brilliance on display in Brazil means our lineup leans heavily on players with an eye for goals.
Manuel Neuer (GER)
Forget his shot-stopping, which was sensational. Neuer was so quick off his line and so good on the ball that he essentially played as an extra defender for Germany, sprinting out from goal to boot away passes that got behind his defense. One of the greatest performances by a goalie in World Cup history — and he didn't even make a save in the final.
Right back
Philipp Lahm (GER)
Fritz Walter in 1954, Franz Beckenbauer in 1974, Lothar Matthaus in 1990 and now Lahm, the fourth German to captain his country to a World Cup win. He did everything Die Mannschaft needed, standing out as one of the most complete and intelligent footballers in the tournament.
Center back
Thiago Silva (BRA)
Hard to imagine Germany would have eviscerated Brazil if Thiago Silva had anchored the host's backline (two previous yellow cards kept him out of the match). The captain often found himself doing it all in defense, and he also chipped in with a crucial goal against Colombia in the quarterfinal.
Center back
Mats Hummels (GER)
A nagging knee injury could not stop the 25-year-old from making the Golden Ball shortlist as he played a key role in Germany's dominant defense and scored two goals at the other end. His pinpoint header pushed Germany past France 1-0 in the quarterfinals.
Left back
Daley Blind (NED)
Blind's incredible long-range pass provided the best goal of the group stages: Robin Van Persie's diving header against Spain. Blind was a perpetual-motion machine down Holland's left flank and scored a goal of his own in the third-place game. At 24years old, the Ajax man is one to watch.
Defensive midfield
Javier Mascherano (ARG)
It would be easier to write about what Mascherano did not do during the World Cup. The man who finished in the top three among all players in tackles and completed passes was also an emotional leader for Argentina. His goal-saving tackle on Holland's Arjen Robben was the best defensive play of the tournament.
Right wing
Arjen Robben (NED)
Robben jinked and juked his way down Holland's right wing seemingly at will, leaving helpless defenders tackling air as he motored past them into open space. He looked like a man possessed as he powered Holland into the semifinal. But his quiet performance against Argentina helped doom the Dutch to defeat.
Central attacking mid.
James Rodriguez (COL)
Before scoring in every Colombia contest, Rodriguez was a 100-1 long shot to win the Golden Boot award that he earned after Sunday's final. The 22-year-old was the most exciting player in Brazil, and his volleyed strike against Uruguay might have been the golazo of the tournament.
Left wing
Neymar (BRA)
Neymar papered over all the cracks in a weak Brazil team. Without his silky dribbling and wicked shot, the hosts looked absolutely lost against Germany and Holland. He might even have taken Brazil to the final if a nasty challenge in the Colombia game hadn't fractured one of his vertebrae. He finished with four goals.
Thomas Mueller (GER)
Headlining a potent German attack, Mueller started the tournament with a hat trick against Portugal, tallied the only goal in a match against the United States and came one strike short of winning a second straight Golden Boot. And he's only 24.
Lionel Messi (ARG)
Messi was overburdened in Brazil. On his small shoulders he carried both the hopes of Argentina and the mantle of its greatest player ever, Diego Maradona. It proved too much, but La Pulga still scored four goals and earned the Golden Ball as the player of the tournament.
Louis Van Gaal (NED)
In May, the Dutch outlook was bleak after injuries decimated the Oranje's midfield. Fast forward to July, and the Netherlands left Brazil with a third-place finish after Van Gaal reorganized and reenergized the Dutch side. His decision to sub in reserve keeper Tim Krul for the penalty shootout against Costa Rica will go down as the gutsiest move by a manager in recent World Cup history.
Honorable Mentions
Tim Howard (USA), Ron Vlaar (NED), Paul Pogba (FRA), Angel di Maria (ARG), Toni Kroos (GER), Juan Cuadrado (COL), Alexis Sanchez (CHI)


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DD-WRT Tutorial 2: Extend Range with WDS
August 25, 2006
With a firmware upgrade, Wireless Distribution System (WDS) creates a router-turned-repeater to reach remote areas.
There's a slogan for Visa that says they're "everywhere you want to be." My real world experience proves otherwise, especially when "where I want to be" is spending less than $10 at the convenience store down the street where they don't believe in accepting credit for such trivial transactions. Your wireless network should also be everywhere you want to be. But unless you live in a yurt, it probably isn't. In the real world, signal propagation varies, and your average multi-story home or office often suffers from weak or dead spots in wireless access.
A Wireless Distribution System, or WDS, is a cheap and easy way to extend your wireless network coverage. It's cheap, because you can set up a couple of sub-$60 routers with the open-source firmware DD-WRT, including the Linux-powered Linksys WRT54GL (only $56 these days on Amazon.com) and other compatible routers. It's easy, because you need only apply a few configuration settings to your routers, creating a repeater bridge to extend your wireless network.
On the second floor, "router 2" acts as both a wireless client and an access point to receive and re-transmit the signal from router 1, the key word being re-transmit. There is a cost to WDS -- clients associated with router 2 will see only half the bandwidth as those associated with router 1. For a wireless G network where the primary usage is external broadband, this presents little sacrifice, since the typical U.S. broadband connection is much slower than the wireless LAN, even at half-speed.
You could add a third, fourth and more routers to extend the WDS even further -- but each one would again divide the bandwidth in half to its clients.
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There are a few rules to implementing a functional WDS network. For optimal compatibility, you should use the same routers throughout -- or, in this case, the same firmware, running DD-WRT v23 on both routers.
Both routers must communicate on the same wireless channel. Both routers must be configured to the same kind of 802.11 network, whether B, mixed B/G, or G. An exclusive G network must use channel 1, 6, or 11.
If you use WPA security, you must set up both routers as exclusive G networks. DD-WRT does not support WPA2 in WDS. WEP security can be used in a network with B support.
WPA security also requires identical SSID assignments for both routers. If using WEP or no security, you can opt to assign different SSIDs to each router. You may have more control over which AP your clients connect to if each has a different SSID -- some client managers, including Windows XP's Wireless Zero Configuration, don't disambiguate APs which share the same SSID and may not always roam with the strongest signal.
You Need to Know
Before diving in and changing your routers' firmware settings, you need some information that will come in handy later. First, log into the DD-WRT administration interface on router 1, which is connected to the broadband service.
- DNS address(es): Click on the Status/Router menu and scroll to the bottom, Internet. There you will see DNS 1, 2, and 3 as provided by your ISP. Note any addresses that appear here.
- LAN IP for your Internet-connected router: click on Status/LAN and note the IP Address listed under Local Network.
- The wireless MAC ID for each router: click on Status/Wireless and note the MAC address at the top of the page. This unique address identifies this router. Note this address for each router in your WDS.
Back Up Your Settings
Before messing with the settings on your Internet-connected router, let's back up the current settings -- which presumably work properly, or you wouldn't be reading this article online. Should your new configuration go awry, you can restore your saved settings and get back on the Web to research the problem or e-mail us an angry rant (better yet, share it in the forums).
Click Administration/Backup and then click the Backup button at the bottom of the page. Your browser will then save a file. Should you need to restore your settings, revisit this page and supply the backup file to the Restore Settings dialog.
Router Juggler
The easiest way to follow along with this tutorial is to configure both routers at the same time. Ideally, connect a portable or other secondary computer to the second router's administration interface while accessing your primary router from a LAN computer.
Ideally, you should reset both routers to a clean slate -- just in case a setting somewhere might interfere with WDS. You can restore your routers to factory defaults by clicking Administration/Factory Defaults and then clicking Save Settings.
WDS Step-By-Step
Step 1: Set the LAN IP address for each router. Click Setup/Basic Setup and scroll to the Network Setup section. The default Local IP Address for your router, after resetting factory defaults, will be 192.168.1.1, which is usually fine. (The examples here use 192.168.0.1, but it doesn't make any difference: the first three octets of the IP address have to match for the nodes to communicate on the network.)
Assign a new Local IP Address to your second router. The logical choice would be 192.168.1.2, or, as pictured below, 192.168.0.2.
Set the Gateway address for router 2 to the Local IP Address for router 1. Here, that's 192.168.0.1.
Step 2: On the same configuration page, scroll down to Network Address Server Settings (DHCP). I enabled the DHCP server on both routers, but set them to assign addresses in different ranges. Router 1 will assign addresses starting at 192.168.0.100 with a pool size of 25 users. Router 2 starts assignments at 192.168.0.200 with another 25-user pool.
You can set these parameters however you like, so long as your address pools don't overlap. With this setup, you can quickly tell from any client PC which access point is associated, based on the current IP address. That's sometimes helpful for troubleshooting.
Router 2 needs the DNS entries assigned by your ISP. You saved these earlier when reading the "You Need to Know" section above.
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|Positive Selection of a Pre-Expansion CAG Repeat of the Human SCA2 Gene
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|Yu, Fuli, Pardis Christine Sabeti, Paul Hardenbol, Qing Fu, Ben Fry, Xiuhua Lu, Sy Ghose, et al. 2005. Positive selection of a pre-expansion CAG repeat of the human SCA2 gene. PLoS Genetics 1(3): e41.
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|A region of approximately one megabase of human Chromosome 12 shows extensive linkage disequilibrium in Utah residents with ancestry from northern and western Europe. This strikingly large linkage disequilibrium block was analyzed with statistical and experimental methods to determine whether natural selection could be implicated in shaping the current genome structure. Extended Haplotype Homozygosity and Relative Extended Haplotype Homozygosity analyses on this region mapped a core region of the strongest conserved haplotype to the exon 1 of the Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 gene (SCA2). Direct DNA sequencing of this region of the SCA2 gene revealed a significant association between a pre-expanded allele \([(CAG)_8CAA(CAG)_4CAA(CAG)_8]\) of CAG repeats within exon 1 and the selected haplotype of the SCA2 gene. A significantly negative Tajima's D value (−2.20, p < 0.01) on this site consistently suggested selection on the CAG repeat. This region was also investigated in the three other populations, none of which showed signs of selection. These results suggest that a recent positive selection of the pre-expansion SCA2 CAG repeat has occurred in Utah residents with European ancestry.
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Congress, Obama Prepare for Siege Over Shutdown, Then Debt Ceiling
Lawmakers and the White House dug in Tuesday for a long fight as the first federal government shutdown in nearly two decades showed no signs of breaking, increasing the likelihood it will become entangled in an even larger battle over the Treasury's ability to pay the government's bills.
The two parties held no negotiations to resolve the impasse, instead trading blame. Republicans criticized Senate Democrats as being unwilling to negotiate an end to the standoff that forced federal agencies to curtail a range of activities and begin the furlough of more than 800,000 workers.
U.S. stocks rose despite the government shutdown as investors said it would take a prolonged halt to rattle Wall Street.
Other Funding Gaps
President Barack Obama pointed the finger at House Republicans for their efforts to scale back or dismantle the 2010 health law, the Affordable Care Act. "They've shut down the government over an ideological crusade to deny affordable health insurance to millions of Americans," Mr. Obama said from the White House Rose Garden.
House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) pinned the blame on his adversaries, saying, "Senate Democrats today slammed the door on reopening the federal government by refusing to talk."
House Republicans launched a new strategy aimed at increasing pressure on Senate Democrats to negotiate with them, only to see it fail in their own chamber Tuesday night. GOP leaders brought forward a series of short-term bills to finance small parts of the government, including veterans services and national parks, through Dec. 15.
None of the bills garnered the two-thirds support needed under an expedited process chosen to highlight House Democrats' unwillingness to fund the popular programs under the Republican plan. GOP lawmakers said they might bring up the bills again later this week in a fashion that would make them easier to pass with just the Republican majority.
The lack of negotiations between the two parties and the White House raises the possibility that the partisan divisions that have brought the government to a standstill could impede the ability of the Treasury to pay the government's bills beyond mid-October. Congress has to approve an increase in the federal debt ceiling by then, and failure to do so could bring broader and more troublesome consequences for the U.S. and global economies than the partial government shutdown.
"The sad news is that, given the performance to date, that the debt limit extension is coming up in two weeks, and this does not portend responsible action on the debt limit,'' said House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D., Md.).
Added Sen. Richard Shelby (R., Ala.): "Every day we are here, the calendars are running together."
The shutdown was sparked because Republicans were determined to scale back the Affordable Care Act before the insurance marketplaces opened. The GOP-led House refused to fund federal agencies for the new fiscal year, which began Tuesday, without attaching provisions to delay the health law or otherwise curb its reach. The Democratic-controlled Senate rejected each of those efforts.
The Senate also rejected on Tuesday a House measure, approved in the early hours of Tuesday morning, that the two chambers assign a small group of lawmakers to resolve the budget differences. That measure also included curbs on the health law, including a one-year delay in its requirement that individuals carry health insurance.
The idea of passing a series of narrowly tailored spending bills was floated by Mr. Boehner at a closed-door strategy session with rank-and-file lawmakers. Republicans said it showed their interest in trying to blunt the effects of the shutdown.
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- Closings Ripple Through Workplaces, Parks
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- Understanding the Concepts Behind the Budget Battle
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"It's going to get the aspects of government open that I think most people are concerned about and, along the way, it'll signify to the American people that we're serious about keeping the government open," said Rep. Matt Salmon (R., Ariz.).
But Senate Democrats rejected the strategy, saying their goal was to reopen the entire government. "People shouldn't have to choose between help for our veterans and cancer research," said Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.). Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) called it "another wacky idea'' from the GOP, and said: "If they think they're going to come and nitpick us on this, it won't work."
The idea echoed a proposal floated in the past week by Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) to pass individual spending bills in an effort put pressure on the Democratic-controlled Senate.
Some centrist Republicans showed fresh anxiety about the GOP strategy of allowing the government to shut down rather than abandoning the party's demands for Democrats to agree to changes to the health-care law.
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He said he worried about the "economic pain" from the shutdown and concluded that "the wiser path was to recognize that the time had come to fund the government fully."
Other Republicans—including Mr. Boehner himself, in the past—have favored waging their fight for major changes in the health-care law not as part of the short-term extension of government spending but on the coming debt-limit fight.
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) on Tuesday cited the debt-limit bill as the most likely vehicle for negotiations over broad debt-reduction initiatives. "That's what we think will be the forcing mechanism" to craft a deficit-reduction measure later this year, he said at a news event called to focus on the government-funding standoff.
The White House and Senate Democrats have refused to negotiate conditions for Congress passing the debt limit, saying Congress had a responsibility to allow the Treasury to pay bills that lawmakers had already incurred. "This is not a concession to me," Mr. Obama said Tuesday. "It is not some demand that's unreasonable that I'm making. This is what Congress is supposed to do as a routine matter."
However, White House officials signaled that Mr. Obama would negotiate with Republicans on their broader budget concerns and possibly some tweaks to the health-care law if Congress approved a temporary extension of government funding and debt-limit increase to give officials time for talks. Details of how such an agreement would work were unclear.
One official said the White House would like, in particular, to address broad budget cuts known as the sequester, but also said there are some tax issues on which Mr. Obama and Republicans could reach a compromise.
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A Rindge man accused of swindling millions through an investment scheme has entered a federal plea agreement admitting to tax evasion.
Aaron Olson of Rindge entered the plea agreement for four counts of tax evasion with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Hampshire.
According to the plea agreement, Olson admits to willfully and knowingly understating his taxes in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, amounting to him underpaying the Internal Revenue Service $664,912.
Olson was the sole proprietor of an investment business that did business as AEO Associates. In and around December 2010, he formed KMO Associates LLC, an investment business registered in Massachusetts.
From 2007 to 2010, Olson used AEO and KMO to obtain approximately $27.8 million from individuals and organizations — ostensibly to invest on their behalf in various commodity, stock and bonds markets. He operated AEO and KMO out of an office in Jaffrey.
"To mislead investors about the true disposition of the funds they placed with him, and to entice them to place more funds with him to invest, the defendant sent investors false earnings statements that showed significant earnings on their investments," the plea agreement states. "The defendant knew these statements were false because he had converted investors' funds to his own use and used their funds to pay purported 'earnings' to other investors and had lost investors' funds on investments that performed poorly."
The agreement says prosecutors and the defendant plan to jointly ask the court for a sentence of 42 months. Olson waived his right to argue for a sentence of less than 42 months. His sentence remains up to the court.
The amount Olson would be ordered to pay in restitution to persons and organizations he defrauded is to be determined at his sentencing.
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When the oaths of office are taken in January, Congress could have its first openly gay Asian-American, Mark Takano of California; its first openly bisexual member, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona; and its first openly gay senator, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin.
In all, eight openly gay candidates are running as major-party nominees for the House of Representatives, the most ever, including the two incumbents who are favored in their races - Democrats Jared Polis of Colorado and David Cicilline of Rhode Island. There's one gay Republican in the group, Richard Tisei, who is waging a competitive campaign for a House seat from Massachusetts.
A common denominator in all the races: Neither the gay candidates nor their rivals are stressing sexual orientation, and the oft-heard refrain is, "It's not an issue." If anti-gay innuendo does surface from lower echelons of a campaign, there are swift disavowals - even conservative candidates these days think twice about being depicted as biased against gays and lesbians.


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In my previous post i showed how a generic comparer class in .net C# 2.0 can be made with the use of reflection.
This is the version 2. Faster, preetier, better. :))
It uses IL code generation in runtime with the use of a new .Net 2.0 class DynamicMethod.
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Apple's iPhone may be the smartphone, and the latest iteration of it, the iPhone 5, which was unveiled Wednesday, looks set to sell like hotcakes, even if some are disappointed that Apple hasn't done more.
But while Apple may not have made any bold strides this week with the iPhone 5 itself, one new application in iOS 6, Passbook, could represent an important step for Apple as it looks to taking its dominance in the smartphone arena and extending it to other mobile opportunities, such as commerce and advertising.
As Adweek's Christopher Heine explains, Passbook could become more than a Google Wallet-like offering that simply allows consumers to make purchases and store digital tickets on their iPhones:
Theoretically, merchants can code Passbook offers and deliver them via email, Web or within their brand apps. These Passbook items (coupons, discounts, etc.) can be associated with up to 10 locations via latitude and longitude coordinates.
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This, of course, will enable scenarios marketers "have theorized about for more than a decade." So it's no surprise that companies seem eager to jump on the Passbook bandwagon. Delta Airlines, Ticketmaster, and Starwood Hotels have joined the list of companies expected to be participants in Passbook's launch. Others believed to be on board include Starbucks, United Airlines and Amtrak.
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Adam Kmiec, who heads up digital and social for Campbell Soup, believes that Passbook will be "a win-win for marketers and consumers." One of the reasons: he believes Apple's new offering will force other players in related spaces, such as Groupon and Foursquare, to improve their offerings.
But will that really happen? While a lot of companies are trying to cash in on the mobile commerce and mobile couponing opportunities, it's not clear how much room there is for competition. If Apple is able to gain substantial traction with Passbook it could be bad news for upstarts given Apple's market penetration.
The good news for those hoping Apple is a less dominant force in mobile commerce and couponing: that might be a very big if. Apple's iAd was supposed to revolutionize mobile advertising, for instance, but it's safe to say that, if that was the goal, it hasn't met expectations. And despite Apple's ability to recruit big-name partners to Passbook, the iPhone 5 lacks a commerce feature many were hoping for: NFC.
Passbook, or NFC?
As iTWire's Stuart Corner argues, Apple's explanation for why it didn't include NFC technology in the iPhone 5 "rates a 'fail'" and notes that, unlike NFC, Passbook is a proprietary application exclusive to iOS 6. "With the number of Android phone shipments now exceeding those of the iPhone the lack of NFC support on the iPhone, and no indication of when it will be added, developers might be looking first to NFC," he suggests.
Time will tell whether that's correct, but one thing seems certain: companies looking for a clear path forward with mobile commerce and marketing shouldn't expect decisive victories any time soon, regardless of how many iPhone 5s Apple sells.
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This will be huge. It may not be perfect yet, but the new Apple Inc as we know it gets this sort of thing right. It's really just a matter of time. Of course the other large players such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon will be launching, competing and developing their own similar payment technologies but this is going to be a game changer in online commerce.
@David as you say, it's going to join things up. @Patricio, as ever, great article.
Apple's Passbook should become a Mobile Wallet soon. It seems like they are heading down the right road.
Bar codes can be used with Passbook to work like LevelUp or Starbucks Card Mobile, to create Mobile Wallet. Therefore NFC is not needed for them to get started in mcommerce. Even though very few merchants have optical readers capable of reading QR codes, many have 1D readers or would be much more willing to buy QR or 2D readers should Apple move forward when Apple moves to make Passbook a Mobile Wallet.
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To the point of NFC - Apple users still have a massive majority share of mobile browsing statistics that we look at, and as such, the greatest share of mobile spend. The presence of NFC in Android needs to be attached with the consumers that have these devices spending using them is NFC is to make any difference.


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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Academy Award-nominated documentary "The Gatekeepers" has won rave reviews for the candid soul-searching of its chief protagonists — the six living former directors of the country's shadowy domestic spy agency — and their somewhat surprising conclusion: That force has its limits and Israel must ultimately take advantage of its military superiority to seek peace.
It's no surprise, though, in Israel. Top security officials have a long history of favoring dovish political parties and criticizing government policies toward the Palestinians after their retirements. Those who have battled Palestinian violence with the harshest methods possible are oddly those often most amicable to compromise.
"These moments end up etched deep inside you, and when you retire, you become a bit of a leftist," Yaakov Peri, who led the Shin Bet agency from 1988 to 1994, says in the film.
In a phone interview with The Associated Press, Peri cited the well-known axiom that those who have actually used force know best its limitations and its heavy price.
"The moment you are there, at the heart of the conflict and the fight against terror, you begin to think deeply about how to end the conflict," said Peri, who was recently elected a lawmaker from the centrist Yesh Atid Party. "Just force, just battle, just deception won't bring peace between the nations."
He and his fellow Shin Bet directors are not typical bleeding hearts. The post is so secretive that until recently, the director was only known to the public by his first initial, and his identity disclosed only upon retirement.
None have qualms about the essential task of the organization they headed or the tactics they have employed, which some have called brutal. It's not about being dovish, Peri said, it's about being realistic.
"We present a facet of liberal, democratic, independent thinking," he said. "The film lifts some of the mystery over a group that is typically regarded as harsh, dangerous and mysterious. And I think that is a good thing."
The trend goes far beyond the Shin Bet.
The late Yitzhak Rabin, one of Israel's greatest generals, reached a landmark interim peace agreement with the Palestinians before he was assassinated by a Jewish ultranationalist in 1995. As prime minister, Ehud Barak, another former military chief of staff, led an aggressive push for peace before the talks disintegrated in a burst of violence in late 2000.
Two other former chiefs of staff, the late Amnon Lipkin-Shahak and Shaul Mofaz, also took dovish positions after entering politics. Meir Dagan, the recently retired chief of the Mossad spy agency, has been openly critical of the Israeli leadership's alleged plans to attack Iran's nuclear program and former military chief Gabi Ashkenazi also reportedly clashed with his superiors over policy.
Yuval Diskin, who recently retired as Shin Bet chief and is one of the subjects profiled in "The Gatekeepers," told an Israeli newspaper on the eve of elections last month that Israel deserved "better leadership" and said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had missed opportunities to advance peace. He said he had based his opinion on dozens of discussion with people of his rank.
Shaul Arieli, a member of the Council for Peace and Security, a dovish grouping of retired high-ranking officers, estimated that about 90 percent of ex-senior security officials tend to take moderate positions on war and peace.
"Our experience tells us that national security is more than what you see between the crosshairs (of a rifle)," said Arieli, a retired colonel. "We believe that peace will provide better security than anything else."
He said the trend was unique to Israel, where military service was mandatory and the conflict closer to home.
The lone exception in recent years has been Moshe Yaalon, another former military chief who is the currently a hard-line vice premier from the ruling Likud Party. Yaalon refused an interview request.
"The Gatekeepers" nomination is a rare nod in the Best Documentary Feature category, which is typically dominated by American productions. This year a second film about Israel's separation barrier with the West Bank, "Five Broken Cameras," is also up for consideration in the category.
In an added ironic twist, the films, both highly critical of Israeli policies, received funding from the Israeli government. Like many countries around the world, particularly in Europe, Israel has a national film fund that helps subsidize local productions, with little oversight of their content.
"The Gatekeepers" already has won several awards, including The National Society of Film Critics' best nonfiction film award and the Los Angeles Film Critics Associations' best documentary prize.
Among the highlights of the film are comments by Ami Ayalon, an ex-naval general who ran the Shin Bet from 1996 to 2000. "We're winning all the battles ... and we're losing the war," Ayalon said.
Inside Israel, the film has not created as much of a buzz. Perhaps that's because the Palestinian issue has been pushed to the backburner after four years of deadlock, or because people have grown numb to the conflict and no longer think peace is possible. But several Israeli columnists have said it should be required viewing for Israelis.
"For lovers of Israel, the Oscar-nominated film is like a waterboarding of the soul," Chemi Shalev wrote in the liberal Haaretz daily.
His colleague, Bradley Burstein, urged President Barack Obama to watch the film before he visits Israel next month. "Mr. President, if you haven't already, watch 'The Gatekeepers' on the biggest screen you've got," he wrote. "You need this writ large because these men explain Israel."
It's unclear if Obama has seen the film, but one leader who definitely has not is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. His office said it wasn't a matter of policy, but rather than the premier had more pressing matters to address.
Several retired security chiefs have expressed frustration toward Netanyahu, saying they waged years of war to provide security and calm environment for the political level to engage in a peace process and it hasn't happened. Netanyahu blames the Palestinians for the deadlock.
"We managed to lower the terror threat to a level that enabled Israelis to live a normal life for an extended period," said Danny Yatom, a former military general and Mossad chief. "They didn't take advantage of this period and did nothing with the calm."
After 35 years of service, Yatom joined the dovish Labor Party and became of staunch supporter of a two-state solution with the Palestinians.
"Part of the dovish outlook comes from the realization that a conflict between people cannot be solved by military means alone. It has to be integrated with diplomacy," he told the AP. "We have to be strong and fight terror with all our might but military actions can only suppress terror. ... You can't defeat it entirely without a diplomatic option."
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The resignation of Mayor Bob Filner could not immediately be confirmed by Reuters.
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Note: This is a tremendously variable recipe to suit the season and your taste. In late summer, throw in a peach or two; in fall, a couple pears add earthiness. If you like nutmeg, a little bit goes well in the topping. If you prefer almonds over walnuts or pecans, theyre tasty, too. I grew up enjoying the traditional recipe, but when my mother developed an allergy to dairy and me to wheat, she created the delicious gluten-free, dairy-free version below.
Servings: 8-10
For traditional Filling:
A mix of tart and sweet apples (Braeburn, Jonathan, Rome, honeycrisp, whatever) to fill a 9-by-13-inch glass baking pan (about 3-4 pounds)
2 tablespoons butter
½-1 cup apple juice (vary amount depending on variety of apples to keep them juicy during baking)
For traditional topping:
1½ cups oatmeal
3 tablespoons flour
½ cup brown sugar
1 cup walnuts or pecans, roughly chopped
6 ounces butter, melted
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Preheat oven to 350 F.
Peel and thinly slice the apples and arrange in buttered pan. Pour juice over top and dot with butter.
Mix topping ingredients together in a bowl and crumble over the apples until covered.
Bake 45 minutes to an hour, until the top is browned and the apples are bubbling and cooked through.
For gluten- and dairy-free Filling:
Use filling ingredients above, omitting the butter
Canola oil (to grease pan)
For gluten- and dairy-free topping:
1¾ cups oatmeal
½ cup maple syrup
1¼ cups canola oil
1 cup walnuts or pecans, roughly chopped
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Follow the same method as above, using canola oil instead of butter to grease pan. Be aware this topping cooks a bit faster because it contains no flour.
Recipes by Judith Hasterok Small.